Bitesize: Public health in the 19th century
c1830-1900 · Resource
Edexcel revision guide on Snow and the Broad Street pump, Chadwick's Sanitary Report, the cholera epidemics, Bazalgette's London sewers and the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875.
On these timelines: BBC Bitesize (revision guides), Resources: Combined
Around 1855
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- London sewer system / Bazalgette (1859)